It would be nice if Mailman, especially the pipermail archives, can use the international ISO 8601 date format. Also the website could use that throughout. Currently there is a mixture of different date formats.
List.org website
list.org uses different date formats
The current stable GNU Mailman version is2.1.10, released on21-Apr-2008. ( http://www.list.org/
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28 Apr ( http://wiki.list.org/dashboard.action )
2008/04/10 in url ( http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/2008/04/10/Mailman+3.0+alpha+1+released )
Apr 10, 2008 in text ( http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/2008/04/10/Mailman+3.0+alpha+1+released )
September 12, 2007 http://www.list.org/mailman-member/index.html
Pipermail
Instead of
http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/tango-l/2006-October/002263.html
this would be an improvement:
http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/tango-l/2006-10/002263.html
even better to incorporate the exact date (if not configurable use UTC time?) in the URL.
http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/tango-l/2006-10-30/002263.html
other: April 2024 !!! http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/
Further thoughts
Does one need the "002263" at all? If the full time is used
http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/tango-l/2006-10-30T18:12:14
maybe only a disambiguater needs to be added for message at the same second?
There's probably not much you can do about the website since all those dates are written by different people or software. I personally tend to use DD-MMM-YYYY format when I write dates manually, mostly because 1) I have an Emacs binding for it and 2) It's less prone to UK/US confusions
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You might have more luck fixing the dates in Pipermail, but I'll warn you that Pipermail is rough code to work with, and hasn't gotten much love in recent years.